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  • 1992 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his activity in Atomic and Nuclear Physics, pioneering the use of polarized electrons as projectiles in new scattering experiments, and for his numerous activities on behalf of the atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics community

Overview

Mark Lubell is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and focuses on research in environmental science, social sciences, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, economics and econometrics, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

Lubell's research addresses key topics such as sustainability and climate change governance, coastal and marine management, policy transfer and learning, economic and environmental valuation, agricultural innovations and practices, climate change adaptation and migration, and disaster management and resilience.

Frequent collaborators in Lubell's research include Francesca Pia Vantaggiato, Jessica Rudnick, Sat Darshan S. Khalsa, Patrick H. Brown, and Sara García-Figuera.

They have published extensively in several academic journals, with multiple contributions to Policy Studies Journal, Ecology and Society, Nature Sustainability, Society & Natural Resources, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

  • Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda (2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability)
  • Institutional navigation for polycentric sustainability governance (2021, Nature Sustainability)
  • The Origins of Conflict in Polycentric Governance Systems (2020, Public Administration Review)
  • Building blocks of polycentric governance (2023, Policy Studies Journal)
  • Adapting to Sea-Level Rise: Centralization or Decentralization in Polycentric Governance Systems? (2021, Policy Studies Journal)

Mark Lubell has also contributed to book publications, including "Governing Sea Level Rise in a Polycentric System" published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Their research intersects areas of environmental sustainability, governance systems, and policy frameworks, particularly focusing on polycentric governance and the dynamics of managing natural resources and adaptation to environmental changes such as sea-level rise.

Among their accolades, Lubell is recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), awarded in 1992 for activities related to atomic and nuclear physics, including pioneering work in polarized electron scattering experiments and contributions to the atomic, molecular, and optical physics community.

Best Publications

  • Trust and Taxpaying: Testing the Heuristic Approach to Collective Action

    John T. Scholz;Mark Lubell

  • Watershed Partnerships and the Emergence of Collective Action Institutions

    Mark Lubell;Mark Schneider;John T. Scholz;Mihriye Mete

  • Building Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program

    Mark Schneider;John Scholz;Mark Lubell;Denisa Mindruta

  • Governing Institutional Complexity: The Ecology of Games Framework

    Mark Lubell

  • Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission

    Charles Efferson;Charles Efferson;Charles Efferson;Rafael Lalive;Rafael Lalive;Peter J. Richerson;Richard McElreath

  • Environmental Activism as Collective Action

    Mark Lubell

  • Agroecology: A Review from a Global-Change Perspective

    Thomas P. Tomich;Sonja Brodt;Howard Ferris;Ryan Galt

  • Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning

    Richard McElreath;Mark Lubell;Peter J. Richerson;Timothy M. Waring

  • Belief Systems and Social Capital as Drivers of Policy Network Structure: The Case of California Regional Planning

    Adam Douglas Henry;Mark Lubell;Michael McCoy

  • Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

    Kerri L Steenwerth;Amanda K Hodson;Arnold J Bloom;Michael R Carter

  • Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies

    Richard McElreath;Adrian V Bell;Charles Efferson;Mark Lubell

  • Global and Local Concerns: What Attitudes and Beliefs Motivate Farmers to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change?

    Van R. Haden;Meredith T. Niles;Mark Lubell;Joshua Perlman

  • Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming

    Mark Lubell;Sammy Zahran;Arnold Vedlitz

  • Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth

    Mark Lubell;Richard C. Feiock;Edgar E. Ramirez De La Cruz

  • Collaborative Watershed Management: A View from the Grassroots

    Mark Lubell

  • Collaborative Institutions in an Ecology of Games

    Mark Lubell;Adam Douglas Henry;Mike McCoy

  • Political Homophily and Collaboration in Regional Planning Networks

    Elisabeth R. Gerber;Adam Douglas Henry;Mark Lubell

  • Collaborative environmental institutions: All talk and no action?

    Mark Lubell

  • City Adoption of Environmentally Sustainable Policies in California's Central Valley

    Mark Lubell;Richard Feiock;Susan L Handy

  • POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSERVATION BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

    Mark Lubell;Richard C. Feiock;Edgar Ramirez

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Kenneth W. Tate
Kenneth W. Tate University of California, Davis
Justin D. Derner
Justin D. Derner Agricultural Research Service
William M. Baum
William M. Baum University of California, Davis
Garry Robins
Garry Robins University of Melbourne
Louise E. Jackson
Louise E. Jackson University of California, Davis
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
William R. Horwath
William R. Horwath University of California, Davis
Ermias Kebreab
Ermias Kebreab University of California, Davis

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